Wednesday, June 19, 2024

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 547: THE HOODED TERROR

(Smash Comics 003, 1939)

It's a good name but I'm afraid that the Hooded Terror is just a stock crypto-fascist European saboteur attempting to destroy the Panama Canal and trap the US fleet in the Pacific in order to set up an invasion of the East Coast. It's no great loss to fiction when he gets cold-cocked by G-2 agent Wings Wendall and left behind in a sinking submarine to drown.

Other than some degree of admiration for his ability to use a periscope while wearing a loose cloth mask over his eyes my one positive note about the Hooded Terror is that he had a real commitment to clear labelling. Never has exposition been handled so seamlessly.

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